Apologies, I didn't realize this was already posted and being discussed

[uppityperson]

I am deleting because I found the other thread and don't want to repeat with another one.

[kcr]

1. I'm not buying it

I find her and that tweet thread suspicious. Sorry. I'll repost what I said in oberliner's thread about it:


So I'm going to stay with being outraged over this.



https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/heres-how-the-government-managed-to-lose-track-of-1500-migrant-children/

What are the most important takeaways about how ORR is operating today?

"I think the main issues are that we currently have an ORR system that doesn’t follow kids after release, which makes no sense. When they say they disappeared, we don’t know what happened. They could be in danger or they could just have moved. And the fact that nobody knows is ridiculous.

This administration, in policies like trying to prosecute parents for smuggling [and] claiming that parents are endangering their children when they bring them, is discouraging parents from coming forward, which puts the children into even more danger and more risk of being with strangers or non-safe people."


That's Michelle Brane, the Director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission. She's an expert on immigration detention.

[Me.]

2. "They aren't all being trafficked"

Just some? As far as I'm concerned, that one line leaves the entire thread in doubt.

[Chemisse]

3. This makes sense to me.

The only kids they should be able to 'find' are the ones that are still kept within their system. Hopefully that number is as low as possible.

[madville]

4. Here is the Senate report from 2016

That identified all of these issues. It is what prompted HHS/ORR to try to locate the 7600 UACs that had "disappeared" or not shown up for immigration hearings. As of December 2017, 6100 had been located, that's where the 1500 number is originating from.

All the trafficking and abuses they are referencing occurred around 2014-2015 as noted in the Senate report. Major reforms were then made in February of 2016. This 1500 number are UACs that were placed with sponsors between 2014 to early 2016.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Majority%20&%20Minority%20Staff%20Report%20-%20Protecting%20Unaccompanied%20Alien%20Children%20from%20Trafficking%20and%20Other%20Abuses%202016-01-282.pdf

[hexola]

5. So CNN is just lied when Brianna said "there was no attempt to find them"

The number is derived from - an attempt to find them!!!

[madville]

6. They are being purposely vague to make the story fit certain narratives

These 1500 "missing" unaccompanied minors (UAC) are from the 2014-2015 surge from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. They arrived unaccompanied or without parents/guardians.

Most people are assuming this has to do with children being recently separated from parents, it is something else entirely. They are not really explaining that which is leading people to believe that the two are related.